Four Thought
Summary: Four Thought talks include stories and ideas which will affect our future, in politics, society, the economy, business, science, technology or the arts. Recorded live, the talks are given by a range of people with a new thought to share.
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- Artist: BBC Radio 4
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Podcasts:
Jad Adams thinks we're dealing with homelessness less well than in the 1930s. Speaking from his experience helping homeless people, he argues our hostel system is not the answer.
Andrew Graystone speaks from personal experience to argue that we’re using the wrong language to talk about cancer.
Advertising guru Kevin Allen tells a tale of missing cutlery on passenger jets to show where business leaders go wrong. Success, he says, belongs to the "buoyant" leader.
Social anthropologist Jamie Tehrani sees our obsession with celebrity culture as a result of our maladapted brains.
Economist Judith Shapiro argues that the next steps towards equality for women will be far harder than those which went before.
Dick Moore calls for urgent action to tackle the problems of adolescent mental health. Driven by personal experience, he sees a need for society to give more emotional support.
Steven Poole argues that we should resist the modern message, from pop science and brain scans, that humans are irrational creatures, driven by instant judgement and primordial urges
When she was a call centre worker Anna Woodhouse could see the towers of Leeds University through the window of her high rise block on a Leeds council estate. For her, this symbolised both possibility and disconnection from the object of her desire. In this talk, she explores what looking through glass and glasses can mean for us.
Henry Stewart argues that bad management blights the working lives of millions of people, and that the solution is to let everyone choose their own bosses.
The science writer Emma Byrne argues that, far from tuning out, we should listen carefully when people swear, because they often do so for good reasons.
Stewart Henderson argues that a lack of poetry in politics is fuelling disengagement, and makes the case for putting poetry back in political rhetoric.
Daniela Papi explores the dark side of volunteering overseas, and asks how local people and wealthy 'voluntourists' alike can ensure a positive experience.
Historian Mat Paskins argues that history can be made real when we bring back to life the excitement which previous generations felt at new developments
Emma Woolf explores how people suffering from eating disorders might now have a proper explanation for the condition.
William Dalrymple introduces the Oscar-winning documentary-maker Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy, in Four Thought at the Jaipur Literature Festival.
